Privacy & Governance

Four groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

CISOs are feeling the security burden of accelerated AI use

Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days

Cops Play Hide and Seek About Using Spy Tech to Avoid Scrutiny and Bad PR

Law enforcement agencies across the country are increasingly relying on spying technologies—automated license plate readers (ALPR)…

Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be

The term “digital sovereignty” has become ubiquitous. European officials invoke it in debates about cloud infrastructure, AI, semi…

Driver’s License Data for Sale

A database of 153 million drivers licenses is for sale on the dark web. Brian Krebs has more detail.

2026 EFF Award Winners: Access Now, 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, DeFlock, and New Media Rights

EFF is pleased to announce that Access Now, 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, DeFlock, and New Media R…

Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher

Claude Fable 5.1 solved a 370-year-old cipher in forty-four minutes. This tracks with what I wrote about AIs doing mathematics: It…

Proofpoint 2026 Voice of the CISO Report Finds Cyber Resilience Improving, While AI Expands the CISO Mandate

Proofpoint SOC Analyst Agent Uses OpenAI Cyber Models

New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization Experiment

EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new…

AIs as Modern Genies

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare. In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent c…

Stealing AI Reasoning Traces

Interesting research: “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs“: Abstract: Leading large language model providers now…

Proofpoint Strengthens Executive Leadership Team with Appointment of Chief Legal Officer and Chief People Officer

Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras

Not sure it’s practical, but it’s certainly striking.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on a Stick at the New York State Fair

Looks tasty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blo…

Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent

It won’t work: My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. W…

Security Vulnerability in a Voting System

It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years si…

AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks

We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy: Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live doma…

Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case—EFF Will Appeal

A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief o…

Proofpoint Brings OpenAI GPT Cyber Models into Security Operations to Help Defenders Investigate Threats Faster

Researching Employment Scams

Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams.

AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns

I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus…

Texas and Florida Step Back from ALPRs

Within the last few days, two important state actions have dealt a big blow to automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. Thi…

Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors

Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers: The feature sends push notifications to users when motion…

Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic

A federal judge has sided with Anthropic on its claims that the Department of Defense illegally retaliated against Anthropic’s pro…

Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users

Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we s…

What’s the Scam?

To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically…

Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials

This is interesting: The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Ma…

Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator

Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I have…